To enable leaders and managers to continue to grow their own knowledge and skills, they need to engage in continuous learning and development throughout their working lives.

Kineo and The Oxford Group have published in 2013 a report titled “Blended Learning – Current Use, Challenges and Best Practices”, which shows the wide range of training and learning options which are now available.

Web 2.0 has opened new possibilities for delivering and accessing lifelong learning resources of high quality at a low cost. A recent publication from Kineo and The Oxford Group titled “Blended Learning Today” demonstrates the new opportunities and channels which are now available to make leadership and management development programmes more accessible, more affordable, more relevant and more effective.

There is a growing consensus that coaching of managers, and coaching by managers, have a key role in any talent management programme. Executive coaching for the top management team is not a luxury, and in many cases it is an absolute necessity. David Clutterbuck, author of several books and articles on this subject, asks and answers the question: “What makes executive coaches feel valued? ”

In another article titled “Seven coaching conversations”. David Clutterbuck considers how being an effective coach requires a continuously expanding portfolio of MDQs – Massively Difficult Questions. Clutterback concludes that the coaching conversation is in fact seven conversations, giving examples of the form and possible content of each type of conversation.

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